Director: Reza Dormishian
Cast: Navid Mohammadzadeh, Baran Kosari, Maryam Palizban, Bahram Afshari, Behrang Alavi
Lantouri is a 2016 Iranian action-drama-crime film directed by Reza Dormishian, exploring the collision between judicial philosophy and personal trauma through the story of a woman whose convictions are tested by a brutal act of violence against her.
What is Lantouri about?
A journalist and social activist who has long dedicated herself to opposing retributive justice in Iran finds her world upended when she becomes the target of an acid attack. Disfigured and confronting her own suffering firsthand, she faces the profound question of whether her long-held beliefs about punishment and mercy can survive the weight of personal anguish. The film traces her internal reckoning as abstract principles meet lived reality, examining how victims navigate the space between justice and vengeance when the stakes become painfully intimate.
Cast & crew
Director Reza Dormishian brings together a strong ensemble cast. Navid Mohammadzadeh and Baran Kosari lead the film, with Maryam Palizban, Bahram Afshari, and Behrang Alavi in supporting roles. Mohammadzadeh and Kosari are widely regarded as among the most prominent figures working in contemporary Iranian cinema.
Context & significance
Lantouri engages with themes of justice, punishment, and human vulnerability that have long occupied Iranian society and its storytellers. For diaspora audiences, the film offers a window into the moral and legal debates that have shaped daily life in Iran, rendered through the intimate lens of one woman's transformation. Crime-drama as a genre has a rich tradition in Iranian cinema, and Dormishian channels it here to ask universal questions about whether ideology holds when suffering becomes personal. The film's unflinching tone resonates with viewers seeking substantive, character-driven stories from Iran's contemporary film landscape.
Where & how to watch
Lantouri is available on K-Time with original Persian audio. No Persian subtitles or dubbing are included. Watch on the web browser, your TV, or your phone with no extra download required, no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and cancel anytime.